Posted on 06/04/2011 1:32:36 AM PDT by James C. Bennett
PESHAWAR: According to a BBCUrdu report, Ilyas Kashmiri, a Pakistani terrorist leader with ties to al Qaeda, was among those killed in the latest drone strikes in South Waziristan.
The report quoted locals as saying that Kashmiri was killed in the strike that killed at least nine militants.
Kashmiri was the chief of the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HJI), an organisation affiliated with al Qaeda.
He is widely believed to have masterminded the attack on the PNS Mehran naval base in Karachi.
A government official in Peshawar told BBCUrdu that although he had been receiving information regarding the death of Kashmiri in the drone strike, he could not confirm the information.
Moreover, an official in South Waziristan told BBCUrdu that a US drone attack targeted a group of armed militants 20 kilometres from Wana bazaar.
The official said the attack killed nine people and injured three others.
Moreover, the official said that those killed in the attack were believed to be militants from Punjab.
Locals and witnesses told BBCUrdu that Kashmiri had also died in the drone attack.
Witnesses said Kashmiri had arrived in South Waziristan from the Khyber tribal region.
About what?
This guy...
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-video-buy-automatic-weapons-start-shooting/story?id=13704264
What a waste of nice Ray-Bans.
We barely knew ya.
OBL’s computers claim their first victim?
Good.
One more down, ??? to go....
Bush originated the drone strikes in Pakistan, and part of the wrath was rightly directed at him. For the most part, that was a problem. Obama’s problem was pretty much continuing and not changing much from Bush’s plan.
Attacking Afghanistan was not a smart move, at least how we did it in the sense that we pretty much had little or no way to ensure that whatever extremists were there could just run off into neighboring countries.
With Iraq, we had a number of things that Afghanistan did not. We had a fairly unified nation, which is not the case in Afghanistan, it’s a collection of various warlords, feuding tribes, etc. Getting a few key leaders killed was perhaps the best we can do there. Also, Iraq was a fairly “modern” Middle Eastern Country, which we were really at war with in terms of bombing the cities with airstrikes and cruise missiles, and trying all we could to sanction them, with the hope that Saddam would actually get blown to bits. It never happened. throughout all the Clinton administration, we finally resorted to getting the troops to capture Saddam, and execute him, and setting up a fairly democratic society in the main section of the Middle East. Yes, we pretty much decided to do the unthinkable, while all Obama thinks is neccessary is to cheer on everyone else to Democracy, and forget about what was done in Iraq as a pressuring move and example to everyone else. figuring that prolonged conflict in Afghanistan was absolutely so important was an idea that Obama doesn’t shine forth as much brighter than Bush, especially for continuing it.
Do you think terrorists would really try going for the president?
Bush’s fault.
Did we give HIM a 40 minute islamic burial at sea TOO?
10 years to get the first one. 10 minutes to get the second one. I hope they all lineup nice and public like to claim “leadership”.
Not necessarily one or the other. Easily could have been, and still is, both...
the infowarrior
.................Zawa? Zawah.......? Zawahiri.......? come on out, buddy!
Noooo...I meant OBAMA was first in the long line of people trying to destroy this country
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